Grown to Love

What fragrance at first have you disliked, but now enjoy? I'm sure there are a few like this for everyone...As for me it would be L'Homme Libre by Yves Saint Laurent. At first I felt that it was to feminine with it's Violet dry down. But this last few weeks I have been wearing it and I am enjoying it. I still get a Violet dry down, but now with almost a pear juice sweetness. Its a very smooth fragrance IMO. And I have received a few compliments from my G/F. She had asked why I haven't worn this and telling me how much she enjoys it on me. This is starting to become a favorite of mine. Btw for those who haven't smelt this fragrance It can def labeled as a unisex fragrance. I will be continuing to wear this for the next week as see how it holds up.

I am getting a full 8 hours of longevity, and Its projection is high on my skin. " Based on cold Weather"

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Rien by Etat Libre d'Orange. When I first smelled it, I didn't have much experience with the leather genre, and so I found it impossibly bitter. Later I learned to enjoy the bitterness, but I also came to appreciate other facets of the scent that I'd missed before.

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Originally Posted by L'Incandescent

Rien by Etat Libre d'Orange. When I first smelled it, I didn't have much experience with the leather genre, and so I found it impossibly bitter. Later I learned to enjoy the bitterness, but I also came to appreciate other facets of the scent that I'd missed before.

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Van Cleef & Arples pour Homme. Blind bought a bottle of the new stuff about a year ago. At first, the deep, dark woods, moss and florals were quite a bit to digest. I wore this for about a week straight when I went to bed to give myself a chance to figure this out. After this week, I felt I understood what was going on a little better but still wasn't completely sold. When I revisited it a couple months later I was hooked. So much so that I sought out and bought a bottle of the vintage juice, which, to my great pleasure, I found to be even deeper and darker. Don't dispair if you don't get this one at first, it is somewhat of an acquired taste. Once you have acquired that taste though, there's no turning back.

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Originally Posted by Profumo Saggio

Van Cleef & Arples pour Homme. Blind bought a bottle of the new stuff about a year ago. At first, the deep, dark woods, moss and florals were quite a bit to digest. I wore this for about a week straight when I went to bed to give myself a chance to figure this out. After this week, I felt I understood what was going on a little better but still wasn't completely sold. When I revisited it a couple months later I was hooked. So much so that I sought out and bought a bottle of the vintage juice, which, to my great pleasure, I found to be even deeper and darker. Don't dispair if you don't get this one at first, it is somewhat of an acquired taste. Once you have acquired that taste though, there's no turning back.

This is a fabulous one. The only difference with me is that I liked it from the start..
More recently, I picked up Azzaro PH for $20 at TJ Maxx. At first I was disappointed with the scent and longevity. Now I think the scent is pretty good so I'll continue to give it a chance as far as longevity. Maybe just spray more. I'm not sure this latest formulation is a "powerhouse" as apparently it once was, but I think I'll keep it around.

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I didn't "dislike" it as such, but I bought New Haarlem blind, and it wasn't what I was expecting at all. I was expecting a coffee fragrance, and I got syrup. To this day I don't smell coffee in it. But I do love it now.

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Originally Posted by drseid

Like is more accurate in my case, but Habit Rouge is one of only a couple it has ever happened for me. I disliked it at first, but it grows on you.

Yes! I hated Habit Rouge when I was first exploring perfumes. What I was looking for was a sort of stylized natural aroma, and so I headed straight into the niche world of compositions in which a single note is dominant and the natural world is the touchstone of success. I liked relatively few traditional French compositions, although a handful of Guerlains were too good not to like immediately as smells even before I cared about them as compositions. Habit Rouge in particular seemed gaudy, too heady, too too. Like the fantasy of pirates of someone I didn't like.
Then about two months ago I went back to a decant of the EdT that Roberto (thanks, friends!) made for me some years ago. And found it to be really marvelous. The orange blossom I now recognize from New York and other frags, and the opopanax feels rich and soft and refers to many other orientals. Just marvelous stuff. Glad that life is, contrary to popular opinion, long.

'...And you'll carry me down on your dancing
To the pools that you lift on your wrist...'

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Originally Posted by QWERTYOP

I didn't "dislike" it as such, but I bought New Haarlem blind, and it wasn't what I was expecting at all. I was expecting a coffee fragrance, and I got syrup. To this day I don't smell coffee in it. But I do love it now.